MORRISON AND MARY WILEY LIBRARY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY POLICY
The Board of Library Trustees of the Morrison and Mary
Wiley Library looks upon the establishment of the Friends of the Morrison and
Mary Wiley Library as a worthwhile community endeavor which will benefit the
library.
Complete advance information regarding all Friends of the
Library projects shall be provided to a member of the staff and the Library Board
of Trustees of the Morrison and Mary Wiley Library. The Library Board of Trustees acknowledges
that it does not supervise the activities of the Friends of the Library, but
the Board reserves the right not to participate in any Friends projects in
which the Board does not believe the best interest of the library is being
served.
The Library Board of Trustees acknowledges that the
Friends of the Library is an organization separate and apart from the Morrison
and Mary Wiley Library and that the Friends of the Library has its own board
and its own goals and purposes.
Friends of the Morrison and Mary Wiley Library is
distinct and separate from the library and neither the Friends of the Library
as an organization nor any member or participant thereof may assume any
liability or take or authorize any act on behalf of the Morrison and Mary Wiley
Library.
Because Friends of the Morrison and Mary Wiley Library is
an organization comprised solely of volunteers, distinct and separate from library
personnel, no library personnel shall perform any duty or take any act on
behalf of the Friends of the Library, except library staff members may act in
an advisory capacity for Friends activities.
Operating expenses of the Morrison and Mary Wiley Library
are provided through allocation of farm property which is audited by an
independent auditor. Friends’ funds and library
funds shall not be commingled or integrated, except that gifts from Friends may
be accepted by the library, whereupon said gifts shall become solely the funds
of the library, but shall be expended for the specific purpose for which the
gift or donation has been made by the Friends.
In the event the Morrison and Mary Wiley Library becomes the custodian
of any Friends funds, those funds shall be kept as separate “funds” for audit
and bookkeeping purposes.
Complete advance information regarding all Friends of the
Morrison and Mary Wiley Library public relations programs on behalf of the
Morrison and Mary Wiley Library shall be provided to a member of the staff and
the Library Board of Trustees. The Library
Board of Trustees acknowledges that it does not supervise the public relations
programs of the Friends of the Library, but the Board reserves the right not to
participate in any public relations project or program in which the Board does
not believe the best interest of the library is being served. Public relations programs adopted by Friends
shall not be part of the budget of or funded by the Morrison and Mary Wiley Library.